CHtml::cssFile

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1

When I use the cssFile helper function to insert CSS files, they don’t get separated by line breaks.

For example:


<?php echo CHtml::cssFile('/css/reset.css', 'all'); ?>

<?php echo CHtml::cssFile('/css/style.css', 'all'); ?>

results in:


<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/css/reset.css" media="all" /><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/css/style.css" media="all" />

It should output on two seperate lines.

2

That’s common PHP behavior. Check this:


<?php echo "a" ?>

<?php echo "b" ?>

Besides that i don’t really understand why this should matter … :)

3

Oh ok lol. It’s just to make the html output look more structured/neater :)

4

It is better to use Yii::app()->clientScript->registerCssFile().

And CHtml::cssFile only generates HTML code and returns simple string and if you subsequently doing echo for two strings then you will get no line breaks.

5

Yeah PHP eats any linebreak right after its closing tag. If you really care about this, add an extra newline in your source:




<?php echo CHtml::cssFile('/css/reset.css', 'all'); ?>


<?php echo CHtml::cssFile('/css/style.css', 'all'); ?>

or even




<?php echo CHtml::cssFile('/css/reset.css', 'all'), "\n"; ?>

<?php echo CHtml::cssFile('/css/style.css', 'all'), "\n"; ?>

I can’t really see why it matters though.

6

Or you add a space after the closing tag at the end of the first line…

7

What difference does using registerCssFile() make?

8

It will add css links to page head and also separated with line breaks :).